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Item Details
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BERENICE AND BAJAZET
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| By: |
Alan Hollinghurst, Jean Racine |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£8.32 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571299091 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571299096 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
2 October, 2012 |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Description: |
The critical event in "Berenice", the death of Titus' father, the Emperor Vespasian, happens a week before the play opens. There after Titus knows that his separation from Berenice is inevitable. The breaking off of a great love affair involves too the hopes of Antiochus, himself long in love with Berenice. |
| Synopsis: |
This volume brings together two translations by Alan Hollinghurst of Racine's most strongly contrasted tragedies, "Berenice and Bajazet". The critical event in "Berenice", the death of Titus' father, the Emperor Vespasian, happens a week before the play opens. There after Titus knows that his separation from Berenice is inevitable. The breaking off of a great love affair involves too the hopes of Antiochus, himself long in love with Berenice. The play pushes all three of its principals to the brink, not of revenge but of self-murder, before in her sublime last speech Berenice redeems and directs them all in an act of collective abnegation. Many tears are shed, but not a drop of blood. The effect is unconventional, and profound: the pained acceptance of the irreconcilable in human affairs, and the surrender, by each of the main characters, of the person they most love. "Bajazet" is Racine's most violent drama; it ends, like "Phedre", with a female character's on-stage suicide, here the culmination of a vividly described sequence of off-stage murders.The setting, in a claustrophobic space within the harem at Constantinople, menaced from both without and within, seems to license a violence of emotion as well as of deed. Violent too are the repeated reversals of fortune, and the terrifying acceleration of the play towards its inexorable catastrophe. Alan Hollinghurst's translation of "Berenice" premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in October 2012 and Bajazet, at the Almeida Theatre, London, in November 1990. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
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Non-returnable |
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